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section 3.2.7 WAI-ARIA http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/dom.html#wai-aria does not include clear advice for authors on which ARIA roles,states and properties can be used on any given HTML element. Using ARIA in HTML does https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/aria-unofficial/raw-file/tip/index.html suggest adding a refernce to it in section 3.2.7 WAI-ARIA and also providing clear reference to WAI-ARIA authroing practices spec as an aid to authors.
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the Editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the Tracker Issue; or you may create a Tracker Issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: accepted Change Description: added note with references https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/38ffe22ebc22e1a0f8e6e0788fe426e402df1fc8 Rationale: The primary audience of this section is implementers it does not provide clear or adequate info for authors, other W3C documents do.
note the correct link to the decision policy is http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy-v3.html